Week of May 17-21 May 20, 2010

Luc and I have been friends for 10 years now, and as we are famous for doing, we make big plans….

…and then we don’t keep them.

Life tends to get in the way.

However, we started something last year that got the ball rolling; we marked one off the list by attending the Fiddler’s Convention in Galax.

Since the ball is gathering momentum nicely, we are following through on our plan for this year:

This weekend we are visiting Biltmore:

Enjoy your weekend everybody, we’ll be here, in the rain.

Week of May 10-14 May 13, 2010

So, several weeks ago I went to the 9:30 club in DC to see needtobreathe in concert.

Yeah, that concert. I hadn’t been wowed by their music previously, but they are a kicky little band live. It made for a great night in a great city with great friends. (AND I drove through downtown DC to get there – YAY me!)

I was in an upbeat mood and put on their cd, the Outsiders. They have a song called Won’t Turn Back, in which the lyrics say:

“so tell me why I should run for cover,
at the sound of the coming thunder…
all I hear is the cry of my lover,
so take your shot.
I won’t turn back.”

For my picture of the week occasionally I’ll take a thought that has stuck with me and google it, to see what comes up. In googling the phrase “won’t turn back” I got the following insanity:

This is from a sight called “married to the sea” and was a bonus because it is full of subversive, funny witticisms (click the image to go to the site). This picture for me has nothing to do with not turning back, so in an effort to be serious, I re-searched it and got this from Flickr:

That sums up the sentiment nicely, or at least better than a bear holding hands with a woman. And I got to thinking, what price would I pay (not being shot would be nice), what/who is the lover I am running to, and what will I not turn back from?

I have a few off the cuff answers…

I won’t turn back from Jesus, friendships, love, grad school, life when it gets hard…

My lover could easily be those same things; Jesus, friends, love, grad school, life at its hardest…

But what is the price I would pay to keep those things? That’s a lot tougher…what I would sacrifice varies according to each item, and sadly my answers conflict with one another. That one I can’t answer on the fly.

So, what about you?

Week of May 3-7 May 7, 2010

It’s camp time again.

While it’s my favorite time of year, it is also the busiest. We’ve received 400 total   applications (both online and paper) in the office for youth camp. And while that is awesome, it equals one headache, two sore shoulders, and one data-entry-weary girl.

One of my favorite things to do is to make note of the names that entertain me, otherwise I would turn into one of those Exorcist-head-spinning people because the work is so tedious.

So, I offer you the following that have brightened my week:

• William Wallace who will be camping. (FREEEEEDOOMMMMMMMMM)

• Dr. Stiff, Dr. Childrens, Dr. Law, Dr. Seamons, Dr. Right, Dr. King, Dr. Young Lightbody, Dr. Wiseman, Dr. Darling, Dr. Livingood, and Dr. Mayo who treat these various children in their various cities.

• In case of emergency we are to contact April Bottoms, Mrs. Looney, Mr. Necessary, Mrs. Gross, Mrs. Brown, Mr. Castro (if only the first name had been Fidel), and Mrs. Maters (I want to assign her a new first name of “Toe”)

• the children of Michelle Williams, Jack & Diane

And then today I stumbled upon this fine, fine specimen which is a thing of beauty:

Child – Adam West

Emergency Contact – Pat Wright

Relation to child – Grandmother